{"id":4096,"date":"2003-12-11T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2003-12-11T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=4096"},"modified":"2021-03-13T13:01:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T18:01:54","slug":"cia-using-polygraph-to-screen-new-iraqi-intelligence-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/11\/cia-using-polygraph-to-screen-new-iraqi-intelligence-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA Using Polygraph to Screen New Iraqi Intelligence Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>In an article titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/politics\/2003\/12\/11\/iraq-spy-service-planned-by-us-to-stem-attacks\/4fab9e87-4c52-4234-b93d-b47ffc2f9b53\/\">&#8220;Iraq Spy Service Planned by U.S. To Stem Attacks,&#8221;<\/a><em>Washington Post<\/em> staff writers Dana Priest and Robin Wright mention that &#8220;[t]o vet Iraq&#8217;s former intelligence officials, the CIA has flown polygraph machines to Iraq.&#8221; Agents for the &#8220;new&#8221; Iraqi intelligence service are to be recruited largely from the ranks of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s former organization, the dreaded <em>Mukhabarat.<\/em> In relying on the polygraph, the CIA is blatantly disregarding the <a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/nas.shtml\">conclusions of the National Academy of Sciences,<\/a> which found polygraph screening to be completely invalid and warned that a belief in its accuracy not justified by the evidence poses a danger to national security objectives. Note also that the <em>Washington Times <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/21\/saddams-loyalists-thwart-polygraph-tests\/\">has previously reported<\/a> that Baath Party loyalists are &#8220;proving adept at beating lie-detector tests.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article titled, &#8220;Iraq Spy Service Planned by U.S. To Stem Attacks,&#8221;Washington Post staff writers Dana Priest and Robin Wright mention that &#8220;[t]o vet Iraq&#8217;s former intelligence officials, the CIA has flown polygraph machines to Iraq.&#8221; Agents for the &#8220;new&#8221; Iraqi intelligence service are to be recruited largely from the ranks of Saddam Hussein&#8217;s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[66,33],"class_list":{"0":"post-4096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-cia","8":"tag-iraq","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4097,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions\/4097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}